MEET KATE

A State Representative, education attorney, and former public school teacher, Kate has dedicated her professional career to public service.

As State Representative, Lipper-Garabedian serves as Chair of the House Committee on Ethics and formerly served as Vice Chair on the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs for two sessions. Since first being elected in 2020, she has led on many important pieces of legislation, including sponsoring the new state laws on nursing home and assisted living residence reforms, tax relief for renters, and campaign funds for childcare expenses. The House of Representatives has passed her bills on financial literacy for K-12 students and the Location Shield Act. And she has been a vocal advocate for increased early education and childcare funding and universal K-12 school meals, the most significant tax relief reform in a generation, investments in the State’s economic competitiveness and housing production, and efforts to protect democratic foundations and constitutional rights through legislative action at the State House. Lipper-Garabedian also has secured more than $3.33 million dollars in earmarks for her District in the last two fiscal years alone.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Lipper-Garabedian served as a judicial clerk on the First Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, and spent more than five years as a senior policy and legal advisor supporting states, school districts, colleges, and nonprofits focused on improving the U.S. education system. She brought that national lens as well as her earlier professional experience as a seventh-grade public school English and reading teacher to her work as the Chief Legal Counsel to the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, working on the Student Opportunity Act, early college initiatives, and consumer protections for college students and faculty, among many matters.

As both a City Councilor and State Representative, Lipper-Garabedian has prided herself on responsive constituent services, personally assisting residents with over 1,000 annual constituent cases, developing a variety of resources across multiple audio and visual platforms, spearheading community events, and remaining deeply involved in community issues from small to large.

Lipper-Garabedian, a Melrose resident, is the proud mother of two school-aged boys.